Benjamin Dong

AI-Focused Full Stack Professional with 8+ years of experience in both enterprise and startup environments. Proficient in JavaScript, React.js, Next.js, Angular.js, Node.js, Python, FastAPI, Flask, NLP, LLMs in full stack web application development. Mostly worked in AI-Driven Product, start-up MVP, AI-SaaS Platforms. Passionate about challenging the status quo and writing a unique story in my developer diary

Senior Software Engineer - Palantir Technologies - Aventura, FL (Remote)

(2023-04 - 2026-03)

• Redesigned and optimized the social networking web and mobile interfaces, prioritizing user experience and mobile responsiveness, resulting in a 35% increase in user engagement and app retention.
• Collaborated with UI/UX teams to create sleek and accessible designs using Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Shadcn UI, Prisma, TanStack Query reducing front-end development time by 20%.
• Implemented JWT token authorization and authentication using Supabase Auth, as well as social federation authentication with providers such as Google, Facebook, and Amazon.
• Exploited React Native to successfully launch an iOS and Android-compatible social networking application, compliant with Standards of WCAG for mobile apps, rated 4.5/5 on APPSTORE.
• Built and launched a dynamic Explore page for AI-generated media posts and content recommendations, leveraging SSR/SSG with Next.js to improve SEO rankings by 40%.
• Contributed the development of AI-powered character creation tools, allowing users to build AI personas with distinct backstories, opinions, and personalities, contributing to a 20% increase in user interactions.
• Chaired routine technical check-ins and reviews, providing mentorship and guidance to 3 team members and advancing their React and Next.js understanding and proficiency

Software Engineer - Powtoon - Sheridan, WY (Onsite)

(2020-09 - 2023-02)

• Led the development of an AI-powered service video/image generation, editing and enhancement applications, chatbot based on open source by leveraging NLP, LLM and conducted extensive research on generative AI trends to drive innovation in projects.
• Developed RESTful APIs using Python, Node.js for the realiable and scailable backend development and wrote scripts with Python.
• Transitioned AI platform from RESTful / Class-based components to functional components using TypeScript, React Hooks, GraphQL, and Redux/Saga for 25% improved performance and reusability.
• Designed, developed, and implemented cloud orchestration solutions to optimize infrastructure performance, including migrating, architecting, automating, and managing cloud environments using best practices on AWS and GCP.
• Participated in sprint planning and retrospective meetings, contributing to continuous improvement practices within the team for 3 years.
• Collaborated with design, product, backend, and testing teams, and coordinated with 7 developers across Brazil, Germany, and Poland.

Software Developer - FishAngler - Fort Lauderdale, FL (Onsite)

(2017-10 - 2020-07)

• Migrated the fishing map web app from PHP to React & PREACT under the design, improving performance by 170%.
• Leveraged React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, and Storybook for designing and building an intuitive MVP from Figma designs, resulting in a sleek user interface with a development time reduction of 25%.
• Developed the RESTful APIs for fetching 7000+ property listings, agent information, etc using Node.js, and Fastify.
• Optimized 45+ web pages by using React tricks, new features and additional hooks, MEMOIZATION React Components, lazy loading of images and so forth.
• Conducted code reviews and provided constructive feedback to improve code quality and performance across 7 web applications.

Bachelor's degree - Computer Engineering - The University of Chicago (2013-04 - 2017-09)